Followup to: <367C8EF3.AC241233@psychosis.com>By author: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel> > Who is to say what is and is not patentable? (Do you cede that government has a> stake in all ideas???) If you want to keep TOTAL rights to something, DON'T> make it public at all.>

The biggest problem is that in the U.S., the Government has allowedpatenting of things that are blatantly *NOT* patentable, due to the"obviousness" restriction, which has basically been ignored here.